Archiv města Vizovice

The town of Vizovice was first mentioned in a document dating back to 1261. In 1570, Vizovice was promoted to a town. Since 1850 it belonged to the district governor's office in Uherský Brod. A district court, a gendarmerie station and a notary's office were established in Vizovice, and from 1855 the so-called mixed district office. In 1868, Vizovice was included in the district governor's office in Holešov, and the court district remained in Vizovice. In 1935, a new political district of Zlín was formed from the judicial districts of Vizovice and Zlín. The first records of Jews in Vizovice are associated with the manorial distillery from the 17th century. Jews engaged in distillery business in Vizovice and its surroundings also in the 19th century; after 1848, their number expanded. The local Jewish association of Zion operated there. In 1902, a synagogue was built. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, a branch of the Jewish Party was established in Vizovice.

The town council documents were stored at the town hall. Most of these documents burned in the fire of 1887, only some were saved. They were later bought by the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno, from where they were transferred to the fonds of the town of Vizovice in 1969. In the 1960s, the documents were organized and in 1968 placed in the Gottwaldov District Archives (now Zlín).